Ever seen a lost goat? When a goat thinks it is lost, it runs around in a panic, screaming madly for the herd. I've seen goats step around the barn, lose line of sight on the other goats, and run around like this for fifteen minutes before figuring out the herd is only a few feet away. The herd ignores the panicked goat entirely, unless the lost goat is young enough for its mama to care. As a lost goat, where better to find other goats than on the seemingly endless plain of the blogosphere?

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Until now, I have managed to crochet an afghan for every one of my sorority sisters' babies. But I just didn't have time since I got the notice for the current baby shower 2 weeks ago (baby not due until July, so I thought the shower would be next month at the earliest). So I'm buying one that's been hand crocheted by someone else. If anyone asks me, I won't lie and say that I made it, but I won't specifically state that it wasn't made by me unless asked. Am I a bad person?

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

At the beginning of this year, I set myself some ambitious goals, and, since the year is ¼ (almost 1/3) over, I need to take a look at how I am holding up, and what I plan to do about it.

1) Religious / Spiritual:
A) Never miss church unless sick or out of town. I haven’t missed once for Sunday morning sloth. Go me!

B) Participate in a mission or outreach with my churchI’ve thought of some ideas, now I just need to get some momentum going.

C) Read The Bible I started off fine, but then tapered off. I still have plenty of time, I just need to get back on the wagon

D) Write every day in a prayer and gratitude journal. This happens some days. I need to make it happen every day

E) Continue to Tithe Pretty much done. I’ve put it in the budget and my church gets a cheque from the bank automatically every month.
2) HealthA) Maintain my weight between 145 and 155 pounds I weighted in at 155.8 last week. I need to get back to exercise, as I can’t seem to stick to my assigned points without some extra from exercise.
B) Swim or do Physical Therapy 4 times a week. I am so fail on this. After I ended physical therapy in January, I’ve done basically nothing. I have not even joined a gym. I go out of town this weekend, but I am going to join first thing on Monday morning.

C) Do Physical Therapy Exercises Every Day. N/A I am out of physical therapy.

D) Practice Aikido Every Day. I’m not doing this. I don’t understand why – I really want to get better, but I can’t seem to make myself practice. I guess I’m just a “casual” who can’t bring herself to practice solo. This is a problem for me now that I don’t have a group to practice with. I don’t have a quick answer for how to turn this around.

3) Financial A) Pay off loan from relatives in the amount of $1000 Done!

B) Pay off loan from relative in the amount of $30,000 Just not gonna happen this tear. I’m saving as much as I can toward it, and I’ll look at it again next year.

C) Fully Fund 2009 and 2010 Roth IRAs. Done!
4) Dreams1) Write something besides this blog. This and aikido practice are my two biggest wants that I never make time for. I need to figure out how to make this happen for myself or just let it go and realize that I’m not going to write.

2) Learn how to Accompany on the Piano I did well for the first month, but fell off the wagon. Time to get back on.

3) Get officially affiliated with a dojo I haven’t looked into this at all. I need to consider it as part of my overall aikido planning.

4) Keep up with my Chinese I haven’t been doing any character writing, but I have been practicing with a friend every couple of weeks, which is much better than what I did mefore.
5) Prosaic

1) Practice with my carry firearms at least once a month Massive fail. This just needs to get on my calendar.

2) Keep my house in a reasonable state of neatness This is not even close to the most wretched my house has ever been, but it’s not where I’d like to be, either. I started Flylady, but then stopped doing it. I’ve gotten her book from the library in preparation for starting again next Monday.

In Summation:
I restarted my Aion subscription and I’m still spending too much time reading news on the internet. I’m managing Aion fairly well, though. I still need better time organization, but I’m not as far behind on this list as I thought I would be when I began this exercise.

I obviously need to add blogging to my list of goals, as I have been massive fail in that direction as well. Time to get back on the wagon!